industrialization Flashcards by ROSS WENTZ

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tenement

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overcrowded, slum housing

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rural

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areas where not many people live

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industrialization

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making stuff in big factories

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capitalism

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capital is money

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agrarian

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related to farming

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mechabization

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doing stuff with massive machines

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industry

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the buisness of making things

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laissez faire

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enlightenment phylosiphy

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social darwinism

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survival of the fittest

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corperation

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owned by many people

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monopoly/trust

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one company is the only place you can get a good or product

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sherman antitrust act

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1st law to eliminate monpolies but failed

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efficiency

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eliminating waste and saving time

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productivity

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inputvs output

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specialization

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getting good at producing or doing one thing

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interdependance

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2 or more things that need eachother to work

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immigration

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people moving into a country

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emigration

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people leaving a country

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migration

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moving within a country

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nativism

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showing liking toward non imigrants

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urbanization

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cities getting bigger

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political corruption

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using a position of power to cheat and make money

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suburbs

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communities just outside of cities

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policy

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a course of action

legislation

laws or law making

antitrust legislation

laws against monopilies

labor

work or workers

labor union

workers that go on strikes

collective bargning

what labor uniuons do

railroad strike

riots against railroads

pullman strike

nation wide strike by the american railroadunion

homestead strike

strike of steel workers

haymarket riot

chicago labor protest turned when there was a bombing

unregullated working conditions

no government oversights

middle class

people who work but have enough money

labor legislation

laws about work

buisness regulation

government telling buisness' what they can and cant do

political partys

groups that try to run the government

interest groups

a group of people who want something from the government

public opinion

what the people think

media

forms of mass communication

leisure

free time

standard of living

how easy or hard your life is

Commerce

buying and selling stuff